RIP Robert Orben. Has to be only person to write jokes for Jack Par, Dick Gregory, Red Skelton, Steve Martin, Joan Rivers, Gerald Ford & Ronald Reagan

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We have enough people who tell it like it is - now we could use a few people who tell it like it can be

Bob Orben, One-Man Gag Factory and Speechwriter, Dies at 95

He wrote tens of thousands of jokes in his career. Among those who told them were Dick Gregory, Jack Paar, Red Skelton — and, for a while, President Gerald R. Ford.

www.nytimes.com